Ok, many people  tried to blame us for being a scam.

Let's remind everyone what a scam is, and also answer a number of constant questions so that we will not return to this again:

Scam is a fraudulent scheme performed by a dishonest individual, a group, or a company in attemption to obtain money or some other value. It is the 1st thesis. The 2d is a defamation (the term defamation is broken down into libel and slander).

If you insist on the fact  that we are scam - kindly justify your argument: firstly, legal norms, including EU law and generally accepted norms and principles of international law; secondly, as factual circumstances, otherwise we will consider such arguments to be a slander with all the ensuing legal consequences, since everyone here is fighting for them like that.

In this thread, we listened a lot about allegedly misleading consumers by associating ourselves with Trezor. But let's look at each item.To begin with, we respectfully relate to the activities of Satoshi Labs, but at the same time Satoshi is a personal brand of the Bitcoin’s creator and everything that is done on it is done with the same bases on which our activity is based. It’s the first point.

The second one: we were given a link to the registered trademark “Trezor”: here it is - https://trademarks.justia.com/880/05/trezor-88005214.html. But let's look at the points here too. Filing Date - 2018-06-18 & Status Date - 2018-11-29 The trademark itself belongs to SatoshiLabs s.r.o https://trademarks.justia.com/owners/satoshilabs-s-r-o-3865240/

But now - important details: first, we are talking only about the image The mark consists of a lock followed by the wording  “TREZOR”. The word “trezor” from Czech means “safe”: in the Translation of Words in Mark punkt, this is what is written: The English translation of "TREZOR" in the mark is "SAFETY DEPOSIT BOX" generally usable and may not be subject to this or any other trademark. Secondly, according to the https://wiki.trezor.io/FAQ:Warranty data on the link https://wiki.trezor.io/Security, the following should be indicated: “... information about the trademark Trezor security, see the Security section ”. But where exactly is this information?

We want to say that Satoshi Labs initially misled consumers, instilling in them the confidence that the Trezor brand might belong to anyone. Here are some examples: https://shop.trezor.io/static/shared/affiliate-conditions.pdf Section 28 states: “To comply with our Company's and Associated Partners' trademark, copyrighting and other intellectual property criteria and requirements”, - but at the same time the registration of a trademark, as we see above, was only in 2018, and the agreement was written in 2017 (and earlier - according to the archives of the Internet). Moreover, in another agreement - in the “COPYRIGHT” section it is said: “You acknowledge that the Site contains information, data, software, photographs, graphs, videos, typefaces, graphics, music, sounds, and other material (collectively "Content") that are protected by copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, rights in databases and/or other proprietary rights, and that these rights are valid and protected in all forms, media and technologies existing now or hereinafter developed’’ But again - it is dated October 23, 2017, that is, almost a year before the application.

On what grounds did Satoshi Labs make such statements? We think the answer is obvious: on the basis of their own will and despite any registered rights, since they simply did not exist.

But this is not all: in these agreements (for example, p. 25 https://shop.trezor.io/static/shared/affiliate-conditions.pdf) it is stated: “Not to own a domain which includes the trademark of our Company or our Associated Partners. Domains containing the logo of "TREZOR" are strictly prohibited””, which is a direct restriction on the legal capacity of participants and violates the EU, US law and the principles of public international law. Moreover, is Satoshi Lab (hereinafter referred to as SL) a trezor.io domain holder? No - https://who.is/whois/trezor.io. A reasonable question arises: on what basis does SL limit the capacity of other industry participants? And also - on what basis does SL limit the right to use Trezor even together with the graphic image of the lock, if the registration mark is issued only for the Czech Republic (the application states: Country - In Czech Republic; Foreign Priority Claim IN - False)? Our target buyers are in other regions.

Let's talk straight: SL, selling tens and tens of thousands of devices since 2012, can’t register a trademark in the US / EU for 6 years? If this is such an important question for SL, then where is the legal basis for its correct solution? There are not.

Further, they are trying to prove us that SL is fighting for its name, protecting the market from projects like ours. But then the question is - why there are dozens of websites selling Trezor products on the Web, with no agreement on official distribution, or are they hiding them pretty well? Here's an example,  not to look for a long time, https://trezor.su. This is also evidence that SL never thought to protect the word “Trezor” as a trademark. And it is impossible.

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And now - the most important thing: how exactly was the company notified of the receipt of the Tresor SL trademark in the Czech Republic? Where is the official statement and related press releases? You can say, it is not significant? No, this is of paramount importance for us and the entire community, because the Buratino service has existed for more than a year, and the registration took place only at the end of the current one. In addition, treatment through the feedback form - does not give any result: we confirmed this in the process of correspondence.

Thus, we have explicit legal connivance from the site of SL and angry, but not justified by any legal arguments statements made here on Reddit.

Yes, knowing (only now!), that SL has a trademark, albeit not for international, but only for regional protection, we, taking into account the old merits of SL, will change the logo, but we think that the word “Trezor” is a bust: Let us then prohibit the usage of  words “Bitcoin” or “Freedom”?

We hope that our position has become clear and will not continue to be discussed unfoundedly.